Scrum Master

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Senior Scrum Master - Large Government Department - Sydney, CBD

As the Scrum Master, you will be assisting the software development team applying Scrum Principles, practices and theory.

This is an opportunity for a motivated individual with strong leadership and project management skills to lead an established team in a mature Agile environment.

Your responsibilities will include and not be limited to:

• Guiding the team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices
• Coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable for the team and organization
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove empidiments
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem solving
• Facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Providing all support to the team

Experience needed for the position:

• 10 years experience on Large Scale Projects
• Must be a Certified Scrum Master
• Advance knowledge of Agile principles, practices and theory
• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 18 months for a software development team that was applying scrum principles, practices and theory
• Good skills and knowledge of facilitation, conflict resolution, continual improvement and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of Agile patterns(Burndown, Retrospective, Product Backlog Grooming, Test Driven Development, etc)
• Knowledge of, and experience with other Agile tools and techniques (e.g. Continuous Integration, Test automation, Pair Programming etc)
• Coordinate Teams across all program workstreams (up to 14 workstreams) - examples of these workstreams would be; procurement stream, financial analytics stream, products and technical stream, program stream, legal and regulatory stream, energy regulatory stream

If you are interested in this position, please apply in the first instance